The Arizona sentinel., 1887-06-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The Russian Empire is composed
 of fifty governments and provinces.
 London covers 700 square miles,
 has 5000 miles of streets, and popu-
 lation of 5.OOO,OOO.
 The Empress of Germany has con
 ferred the Cross of the Order of Louise
 on three lady presidents of Augusta,
 the Catholic and Jewish asylums at
 Berlin.
 The Queen of the Belgians recent ly took pot-luck with the officers of a regiment of infantry. Her dinner was plate of cabbage-soup and a pickled pigs foot.
 By way of the British Embassy at St Petersburg comes probably the first authentic statement of the Russian debt, which shows total of s471, 474, 900, with the interest for the current year over e25. 100000.
 At Forli, Italy, very ancient tomb has been found under street. contain ing the remains of skeleton warrior, leaf-shaped lance heads of iron, fibule and a great number of small vases and urns of pottery.
 In the Acropolis at Athens was a golden lamp large enough so that when filled it would burn night and day for year. Above it was bronze palm tree to carry off its fumes and act as reflector.
 There has just been completed in London another tunnel under the Thames. mile long, starting from a point just north of London bridge. It took only about four months to build, cost s25, 900, and is expected to be one of the best-paying enterprises of the day CtriStiGp dt Work.
 The French are smoking less every year, apparently. Last years tax on smoking tobacco, including cigars, was 6,000,000 francs less than 1885. Of snuff, however, the consumption is as large as ever, S0,00O, 900 francs being the annual expenditure for the nose- tickling compound.-BoSton Tran script
 A supposed equestrienne statue of Jeanne d'Arc in the Cluny Museum, whose horse once formed reliquary. is declared by writer in the CourT1er de Art to be not the Maid of Orleans at all, but Saint Maurice, the recep- tacle in the horse having been used to contain the relics of that favorite of the Middle Ages.
 The railway through the so-called "Hell Valley" in the Black Forest, from Freiburg to Neustadt. will be completed next month, opening up to tourists fresh view of the beauties of this romantic district. Another item for tourists is the opening to the public of the palaces of Hohenschwangau, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee, built by the late King of Bavaria with such and at almost incredible cost.-RttIadeLphjG Press.
 In Russia, on the northern rail- ways, the locomotives, hitherto burn ing wood or coal, are being adapted or peat burning, the saving being esti- mated at some fifty per cent. In many places the peat is cut by hand ma chimes, but these, although cheap and easy to work, have the drawback that the peat can not be worked below eight feet, whereas the peat-cutting machines worked by steam-power penetrate twenty feet, and reach the lower, denser layers of peat, which, owing to their superior quality, command a higher price in the market.-M r Sun.
 Sir Peter Lumsden lately read paper before the Royal Geographical Society, in which he describes lake in Asia about six miles long, the bed of which is one solid mass of hard salt, perfectly level, and covered by only an inch or two of water. To ride over it was like riding over ice or cement. The bottom was covered with slight | sediment; but, when that was scraped | away, the pure white salt shone out | below. How deep this deposit may be it is impossible to say, for no one has ret got to the bottom of it.-Boston Bud0eL